Anseo

This is what a bar should be
Great character and athmosphsre … Good range of beers and music upstairs always insures you have fun !
Well recommended …

I speak the truth on my reviews, so it’s not like I have Bi — Polar, I’d always say choose the Cusack Stand as opposed to this dive.
For a start, the phrase, room to spin a cat around in fits!, tiny pub.
Now the toilets, disgraceful, should actually be reported, awful.
The bar is dark dirty dingy and the whole place should be shut down,
It attracts a busy crowd, but not for me. if anyone wants to go and try it, can Emily give half stars pls,
#one of the worst bars in Dublin

This pub is one of my favorites spots in Camden Street, with the atsmosphere of an authentic Irish pub you also can find some hipsters and indie music. On Wednesday there is a Standing up comedy show for free very recomendable.

I´ve there two Wednesdays, for the comedy club upstairs. The first one was amazing, the second was ok, but don´t forget it is a free entry comedy club done by amateurs: best of intentions and motivation. Surprising that many people choose a comedy club jam for the first date and sit in the first row (that is the hardest test for a budding love, if it survives will be endless or maybe longer…).
I liked as well the DJ after the comedy club, like almost 90% of the DJ´s he mades funny movements by playing records but he has a good selection of classical rock and roll with some soul. A tip: don’t speak to him, believe me, just consider him as his job for the purpose of a pub visit.
Did you know that Anseo it pronounced like an (like an in Anthony) and shoo (like in shock), it is an Irish word and it means … Oh sorry, one moment, go there and ask what it means, perfect topic to meet people. And the most important: don’t forget to laugh, live is to short to cry all the time

Camden Street has a fair share of pubs, this one falls right into the middle. Nothing very special, but nothing bad to point out either. They have a decent selection of drinks, and I got to enjoy one of my whiskeys of choice.
The live DJ is a great touch, gives it a much cooler vibe. All and all I would qualify it as a good place to go if you want to enjoy the company you’re in and not have the place distract you.

I love this place!
The pub is well spread out, the staff are friendly and it’s at that part of camden street that hasn’t yet descended into drunk people taxi mania.
There’s a really strange little venue upstairs where you can watch comedy some nights. It doesn’t really «work» as a venue but I’ve never really had a bad time up there!

A little bit of Hipster magic on one of Dublin’s booziest streets. The best way to describe Anseo is that it is a pub that has been around for 50+ years but never got an upgrade. It’s dark, cool (temperature wise) & slightly uncomfortable. But I would imagine these conditions is on purpose and keeps away your likely snobby cocktail bar crowd.
The bar staff are very friendly and helpful. They have live DJ music on a Friday/​Saturday and the crowd is always good on the weekend. The best thing about Anseo is their craft beer selection– you name it, they probably have it! They also have a decent size tv in the corner should you want to catch a game. During the week its quiet if you want to grab a after work beer.
P.s rumour has it an Irish actor who stars on G.O.T happens to frequent this bar also.

Loadsa craft beer (including my favourite Scraggy Bay!), djs spinning vinyl and the lights down low… Anseo is Dublin’s answer to the quintessential American dive bar… but with that added Irish je né sais quoi.
It’s somewhere I go when I want to chill out, to hang with friends or to just listen to some quality choons. If you’re looking for a quality bar without the pretentiousness you can get elsewhere, give it a shot.
Now, job done, review complete, it’s Scraggy Bay time!

Anseo is an great place. I come here every week with my colleagues. It really is the best place to have a drink in a nice and quiet bar (during the week). I highly recommend this place!
Ps: they have comedy nights every Wednesday!

Colleen?
Anseo.
Translation: «present» or «I’m here.»
And yes I was. Happily perched and drinking pints of Ireland craft beer for several hours after work. Had I been allowed I may have stayed for many, many more — but luckily I needed some food and thus was saved from myself.
Highly recommend those Trouble Brewing beers that went down a treat: Sabotage IPA (a big old growler of a bottle) and then the Gold on draught, things are getting fuzzy, but I liked it even better than the IPA (pics below). I’m not really a huge beer drinker but was feeling it last night and Anseo delivered.
Comfy, cozy, welcoming, space to sprawl, clean loos, tons of beer. What else might one need?
Colleen?
Anseo. Anseo. Anseo.
*accepts cards.
**full tab for about 20 beers/​drinks came to around 100 euro, not bad at’all.

Wonder why I haven’t written a review for Anseo before?! It’s a really nice spot. A bit dark and dingy but also kinda cosy at the same time. It’s laid back, massively so, with gig posters on the walls, and a kind of an older student vibe. It’s friendly and unassuming and the kind of place you head into for one pint and stay for about ten. Just cos it’s easy.
They have a great craft beer selection, though course I’m not the craft beer expert, but I can say the wine I had in there was lurvely and much nicer than I’d have expected.
It’d be cool if they did some type of sustenance. Maybe some whopper toasted cheese sambos or something. Either way, I’m all for it! Grand pub, good banter, lovely staff, what more could ya want!

I really like this bar, good atmosphere and great selection of beers and wine. It could do with a bit of a makeover or even just a good scrub. I don’t wanna sound like an old man but I was there on Saturday night and the music was way too loud. There was a large group of us out for a birthday and would have been nice to be able to talk to more than one person at a time but it was impossible! Most of us left early and moved on for this reason which is a pity. I’ll obviously be back but just wanted to say about the music.

This is a quirky little pub! not my usual scene but they have a great selection of craft beers! Its a small enough pub and seating gets tight as the night rolls on! Music was a funky mish-​mash of 70 groove! worked well.

I like bars. A lot. I have visisted 1021 different bars all over the world since I started counting in May 2005. The beauty is that if, like me, your thing is writing about bars, you get to sit in pubs and get drunk and you can call it research.
If you visit as many bars as I do, you start to notice similarities in certain things. Irish pubs in the USA, for example, are generally closer to the Real Thing than in, say, Belgium or Budapest. This is most likely down to the fact that half the population of the USA claims some sort of Irish heritage, but they do it really well. I once visited a regular (=non-​Irish) bar in Melbourne, Australia and somehow could not get over the fact that I had the feeling that I’d been there before even though I was 100% sure that I hadn’t. I finally realized what it was when I looked at the menu and noticed that it was exactly the same as in a bar where I’d been the day before and found that they had the same owner. They didn’t look the same at a first glance, but they FELT the same.
And that brings me, in a roundabout way, to my first ever visit of Anseo. When I walked into the place, I had a look around and instantly got the feeling that I had been there before. I had a couple of beers that night, mulling over why it looked so familiar, but I just couldn’t put my finger on it. I liked the place. It has a decent selection of whiskeys and craft beers (and non-​craft ones but I think you are supposed to deride that in Dublin these days for the risk of being called a Guinness sipping old fart). The music is decent and the bar has a nice worn in feel. Not a straight up dive, really, but in that direction. Comfy seats and a long bar complement the dark atmosphere and you can really feel at home there quite soon. But I could never get over that nagging idea of having been there before. It drove me mad. I looked through old notebooks with bar notes, in search of a clue but I couldn’t find one. I looked online to see if the bar might be part of a chain or a bigger group of pubs, but all to no avail.
Months later, I was browsing through some old holiday pictures of a trip to California from a couple of years earlier and it finally hit me. Anseo is a near-​perfect carbon copy of the Edinburgh Castle bar on Geary Street in San Francisco. The tables to the left of the door, the long bar, the seats towards the back, the bookshelves. It was striking. I hurried back to Anseo the next day with my picture in hand and showed it to the bar man, who was as surprised by it as I was. The manager told me that he had never heard of the place in San Francisco before, let alone modelled his bar on it. It was one of the most striking cases of ‘would you believe that’ I’ve ever encountered.
Fortunately for you, good people of Dublin, you don’t have to spend 11 hours on a plane to see it. It’s right there on Camden Street.

I stopped in here for a drink the other night before a gig in Whelan’s. It was around 7pm, the perfect time to stop by as Anseo always seems to very busy by later on in the night.
They serve a range of craft beers and all of the usual suspects as well. The bar staff were friendly and the atmosphere was relaxed and casual. The soft seats are really, really comfortable and I enjoyed the low key music that was being played.
All in all, this is a nice place to come earlier in the evening. The drinks aren’t the cheapest but hey, you can’t have everything.

This is my favorite bar on Camden Street. Very low key, but not hole in the wall. It’s great to go for drinks with friends before or after a meal at one of Camden’s st’s many restaurants!

Ok, so that bars not pretty, but the people are! I have always had a bit of a soft spot for this place since I first started going in college to hear friends play in the itsy-​bitsy venue upstairs.
Its a wee bit dingy décor wise, but the music is good and the drinks are cold. It’s as cheap as any bar in the Camden St area, but I really love the relaxed atmosphere for getting everyone together before setting off on a night of dancing and debauchery in Whelans.

So far my favorite bar in Dublin.
It’s got the right vibe for a laid back pint with friends. The music is amazing. DJ spinning some funk, keeping it upbeat and fun. The bar is pretty small, but enough room to breath for most of the night.
Have stuck to the Guinness, but they have a good selection of beers on tap, in bottles and alcohol.
I’ve been back a few times and will be back again, and again.

I really like Anseo. You can rely on this place to serve a good pint, have nice and friendly staff and play good tunes. The atmosphere is very laid back and attracts a decent crowd. Basically, it ticks all the right boxes as far as I’m concerned.
I’ve never been a regular but do visit often enough and each time I go I’m glad I did.

Bön choix de bière artisanale
Staff peu parlant, accueil moyen, prix corrects

Anseo hits that sweet spot between being drop dead trendy and pretentious. Effectively, it’s the Bernard Shaw for people who aren’t out to prove anything. Good tunes, nice atmosphere and a varied selection of drinks that you won’t find in many other pubs.
The only criticism you could have of Anseo is that it’s too popular. The place is jammers on weekends, so if you want a seat you’ll have to go early. Actually, even if you want a decent place to stand; go early.